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wicked_child
02-05-2006, 05:49 AM
can you name songs recorded with shortscale basses?
Deacy
02-05-2006, 06:00 AM
I think all of Cream's stuff was done with a shortscale
wicked_child
02-05-2006, 06:04 AM
that was an epiphone eb-o right?
LewsTherin
02-05-2006, 09:21 AM
that was an epiphone eb-o right?

EB-3, I think. He also used a Fender Bass VI.
sixner
02-05-2006, 09:24 AM
...kind of off subject, but i saw a no-name (litereally, no name on it.. headstock was fender shaped, but black)... It looked alot like an old musicmaster bass, it was incredibly short scale w/ flatwounds on it...$56! :lol:

(randomness, sorry)
Can you really tell by hearing if it was done in shortscale?......
-sixner
Deacy
02-05-2006, 10:01 AM
EB-3, I think. He also used a Fender Bass VI.
It was a Gibson EB-3, and I've seen pics of him with a Danelectro
TheBassman238
02-05-2006, 10:20 AM
Can you really tell by hearing if it was done in shortscale?......


Not that i know of.... the only thing that i see with my short scale is better or more promonent harmonics..... and i doubt Cream used harmonics...

-TBM
the101er
02-05-2006, 10:30 AM
JPJ used a shortscale Dano me thinks, cos its "sounded like a piano"

Erm, the Like and Space Mtn. bassists/singers use Short scale basses
Deacy
02-05-2006, 10:35 AM
Alot of bassists use Rickenbackers, they're a 32.5" scale aren't they?
wicked_child
02-08-2006, 05:55 PM
ric are 33.5.
Munky_Jam
02-08-2006, 05:57 PM
yeah i don't really think you can tell without paying alot of attention and knowing what you're looking for with this one. But alot of gibsons were short scale back in the day
wicked_child
02-08-2006, 06:02 PM
so you mean the les pauls and thunderbirds wer shortscales back then?
Son of Magni
02-08-2006, 06:16 PM
Basically anything Stanley Clarke ever played on electric was on a short scale Alembic. :amaze:
Munky_Jam
02-08-2006, 06:17 PM
Les Pauls were, i don't think the thunderbirds were. I think the grabber and ripper may have been shortscale for a while too (but could be wrong on that one)
Deacy
02-08-2006, 06:18 PM
ric are 33.5.
33.25" having checked the Rick website
Panda Licker
02-08-2006, 06:22 PM
Check out early David Bowie stuff (Ziggy Stardust and the SPiders from Mars for example)


I'm not sure of the bassists name, but I'm almost positive he used a fender Mustang
Son of Magni
02-08-2006, 06:31 PM
Also wasn't Paul McCartney's Hofner a short scale???
I think that would mean any tune by the Beatles...
bassistuvdoom731
02-08-2006, 06:32 PM
Isnt Chris K's Kubicki a short scale?
Panda Licker
02-08-2006, 06:37 PM
Also wasn't Paul McCartney's Hofner a short scale???
I think that would mean any tune by the Beatles...
I cant believe I forgot that


...


I'm ashamed



However, he used a ric a lot too, which as far as i'm concerned isnt really a 'short' scale. Fender Jazz sometimes too. You have to pay attention, and be obsessive to actually notice, but whatever